But the South Pole hasn't always been frozen. So when was the last time Antarctica was ice-free? This ice cap formed ...

New research suggests that ancient Mars, despite its icy conditions, once had rivers, lakes, and even a vast ...

The fifth-largest continent, the magical Antarctica, which dominates the South Pole in all its mysterious ... fell on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow. It has earned its ...

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified with news that for the first time the North Pole stands at the ... The ice caps are estimated to be shrinking at the ...

ESA's Mars Express has captured an astonishing array of landforms emerging from a thick winter blanket of frost as spring arrives in the south ... caps of Mars are mainly composed of carbon ...